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Adgateville, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31038. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle.

Adgateville within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Adgateville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 411 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning101
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2019Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JASPER003
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JASPER002
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JASPER-006
7 August 2002Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-JASPER-003
27 August 2011Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JASPER-005
26 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Adgateville: 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C H Greer MineVermiculitePast Producer
Barron ProspectMicaProspect
Feldspar Corp Jasper Quarry CFeldsparPast Producer
Feldspar Corp/ Ga Mine & PlantFeldsparPlant
Turner ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adgateville in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAdgateville$1,000Tree down at felton mcmichael rd and hayes rd.
October 1997HailAdgateville$600Jasper county 911 reported golfball size hail on highways 83 and 11 near Adgateville. The hail was 3 inches deep in some areas.

Every storm recorded in Jasper County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Goolsby2.6 miles12
Hillsboro3.4 miles12
Kunsford (historical)4.5 miles12
Minneta4.8 miles11
McElheneys Crossroads4.9 miles14
Benton Crossing (historical)5.1 miles11
Piedmont (historical)5.3 miles11
Monticello5.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 354263. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.